Sad News. My Camera has died.

Sad news. My camera for the past eight years, the one that's taken all of the nice pictures I've posted here, has died. 9.30.2012. On Saturday I posted a beautiful sky and field picture (reposted below). Afterward I drove to a drive-thru and took pictures of a squirrel while I eat. Here is one of the final pictures taken. Over the years I've taken thousands and thousands of photos. Many are in my "Calmness of Woods" DVD still available at http://www.victorrook.com/woods. RIP, my guy.

Yeah, 8 years is like forever in the camera world, as with everything else these days. BTW, what actually went wrong with the old camera? Totally died, or began taking defective pics?

I'm presuming digital, and I've had them appear to go instantly dead when it was the lithium battery that failed all at once, one moment fine, the next nothing. I've also had cameras act weird when the memory card went bad without warning.

But cameras take a beating in use, not like home electronics, getting knocked around, sometimes a little wet, humidity, heat, etc. 8 years was a good run, not as if the OP got short changed.

mx5guynj saidDon't buy a Nikon, they are missing many features available on much lower price cameras. I guess that's why Nikon has to pay Ashton Kutcher to hawk their products.

I've been a Nikon user for 8 years. My first (D70) still works great, and has all the features I need. My D7000 has MORE features than I need (like a gazillion different settings for autofocus and auto WB).